Example sentences of "is [adv] difficult [verb] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the book is rather difficult to read and the general reader may become discouraged after picking it up , despite the attraction of the illustrations and lay-out . |
| 2 | Evidence on this subject is extremely difficult to gather and interpret . |
| 3 | It is extremely difficult to tame and its shyness , combined with its great ferocity when cornered , suggests that it would have been troublesome for early man to domesticate . |
| 4 | But in practice , the growth rate in earnings is extremely difficult to determine and has to be forecast . |
| 5 | Much of the above advice is based on the ‘ best available ’ knowledge principle and is thus difficult to give and actual authority for , however , we do make every effort to remain as up-to-date as possible . |
| 6 | However , many knitters find that it is still difficult to plan and knit garments . |
| 7 | If the domain of a criterion statement is broad the representativeness of assessment tasks is more difficult to arrange and criterion performance may thereby be ambivalent . |
| 8 | But the plastics in the waste collected by local authorities tend to be dirtier and of mixed types , and the recycled product made from them is more difficult to control and guarantee , especially for applications that will be in contact with food . |
| 9 | Informality in the water garden is more difficult to achieve and maintain satisfactorily . |
| 10 | The proportion of the different grains present is more difficult to ascertain and is done using two main techniques , point counting and visual estimates . |
| 11 | But , because Phonebase is notoriously difficult to access and the charging procedure is complex , Ms Burke and her husband decided there must be a better way of doing it . |
| 12 | Many people believe they know what is meant by orientalism , yet it is notoriously difficult to comprehend and to write about the whole of this protean subject . |
| 13 | Criminal fraud is notoriously difficult to establish and the evidence required to do so needs careful and skilled assessment . |
| 14 | However , it is notoriously difficult to capture and exhibit any legal theorist who unequivocally espouses formalism , that is who insists that the application of the general principles and rules of law to particular cases is a matter of deductive reasoning and nothing else . |
| 15 | At least with this disease there is no doubt as to its existence , although the causative organism is as difficult to grow and identify as that of chancroid . |
| 16 | The homology of a particular vein is often difficult to determine and resort has to be made to comparison with allied forms ( including fossils ) , which exhibit transitional stages in reduction , or to a study of the preceding tracheation . |
| 17 | This is quite difficult to do and provides a great deal of fun . |
| 18 | The paradox here is that this variable is very difficult to access and would not be accessed at all if our field methods and analytic methods were inadequate ; yet , the variation has strong social meaning within the community . |
| 19 | Such a shot is very difficult to judge and , therefore your better club choice may be a No.9 iron or even a No.8 iron . |
| 20 | I find this poem not as effective as ‘ Futility ’ in getting its message across as there does not seem to be much emotion in it and it is very difficult to understand and that takes away much of the effect . |
| 21 | This situation is very difficult to handle and it is worth trying to avoid early escalation of treatment with sulphonylureas and then progressing to insulin . |
| 22 | Such old people customarily exhibit behaviour which is extraordinarily difficult to tolerate and which raises a high level of anxiety . |